John Nettles Quotes

Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

We shot every scene of mine in the entire movie in five days. All my coverage, everything. I left. They went back and shot everybody else around me. Insane. The part [Billie in Crazy Six] called for a handsome, coiffed cool guy romantic lead, and I showed up like you see him in the movie. And they let me do it.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before you've even started the beginning. So you get good at it because you have to sort of just eliminate the memories of something you've done as an actor, which you haven't done as the character yet. But it sometimes is a bit of a mind-f**k.

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.